Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-20
miscellaneous.
| DRUGGISTS MISTAKE.
A Sick Mans Wife Disregards the
Druggists Advice and So Saves
the Life of Her Husband.

/ am wood carver by trade and it is
out of my line to write letters but my
wife thought it was no more than right
that I should let you know what your
remedy has done for me, and think so
too.
l live in East 10Th street, west of
Third avenue, and have lived there for
about twenty-three years, where own
real estate. Up to the time am about
to mention had been a strong, well
man. There was always more or less
malaria in the neighborhood. but had
not personally suffered from it. 1t was
in 1880 had my first attack. 1t came
on as such attacks commonly do, with
headaches, loss of appetite and ambition,
chilly sensations with slight fever after.
wards, a disposition to yawn and stretch,
and SO forth. / was employed at that
time at Killians & Brothers. furniture
manufacturers, in West 32d street,
hoped the attack would wear off, but as
it didn't / consulted well-known and
able physician in Morrisania, who gave
me quinine and told me what to do.
can sum up the first four and half or
five years of my experience in few words.
Occasionally was laid up for day or
two, but on the whole l stuck to my
work. kept taking quinine, in larger
doses from year to year, and kepton get
ting weaker and worse, slowly but sure
.ly, all the time. !. Ny trouble was now
well defined and its symptoms were
steady and regular. had dumb ague
in its worst form, and it was grinding
me down in spite of all that I could do
orthe doctors could do. 1t held me in q
grip like fire in a burning coal mine. The
poison had gone all through and over me
and nothing was able to touch it. was
fast losing flesh and strength, and about
March, 1884, knocked off work entirely
and went home to be down sick, and to
die for all could tell. I ran down so
rapidly that I soon became unable to
walk any distance. Later went from
room to room in my own house only by
friends holding me up by each arm. The
doses of quinine were increased until l
often took thirty grains at dose. The
effects of this tremendous stimulation
was to make me nearly wild. 1t broke
my sleep all up, and often walked the
floor, or staggered about it, all night
long, scarcely able to hear any noises or
even human speech. My temper was ex-
tremely irritable. AS to food, one of my
little children would eat more in meal
than could in day. / would order
food and then turn from it in disgust. I
lived on quinine and other stimulants
and on myself, like bear in winter.
The quinine set my head in whirl, and
the liquor-given as a medicine-made
my stomach so sick / could not tolerate
it.
From 175 pounds (my proper weight
l ran down to 81 pounds-the weight of
a light girl-and was scarcely better
than skeleton.
IF anybody had taken Ratchet and
knocked me do,vn and killed me should
hare been better Off.
During the latter part of this period,
early in 1887, my physician said: Mil
Ter, there s no use is my taking any more
money of you, can't do you any good.
Knight pour pounds of quinine down
your throat and it wouldn t help you"
G On the strength of this I gave up the
use of Quinine altogether, and made up
my mind to do nothing more and take
my chances.
Three weeks afterwards about the
last of May-my wife saw an ADVERTISE
ment of Kaskine in a New York paper.
She told me of it. / said "Stuff and
nonsense it can't do me any good"
But she went to a druggists, neverthe.
less, to get it. She druggist advised her
against Kaskine !: he said it was nothing
but sugar: that she ought not to throw
away her money on it, &c. He said he
didn t keep it, but could get it if she in
sisted on having it. Turning away in
Mr.. A. G. Hegewald, who got her bot
flo. Of dr,,n ctnro
3 Almost against my will, and without
the least faith, I began taking it. In one
week was better. began to sleep. l
stopped seeing ghosts" 1 began to
have an appetite and to gain strength.
This was now the first of June, 1886, and
by the end of that month l was back at
my bench at c. P. Smiths scroll saving
factory in 10th street, where | work
now.
Since then I have never lost a day
from sickness. Taking Kaskine only,
about forty pellets in four equal doses
day, continued to gain. The malaria
appeared to be killed in my system, and
now I've got back my old weight-175
pounds-and my old strength to labor.
am an astonishment to myself and to
my friends, and if Kaskine did not do
this don't know what did. The only
greater thing it could do would be to
bring dead man to life
FREDERICK A. MILLER,
$50 East 18TH Street, New York
P. S. For the absolute truth of the
above statement refer to the following
gentlemen, who are personally acquaint-
ed with the facts: Mr.. Alexander Weir,
626 156th st. !; Mr.. George Seaman, 158th
street and Courtlandt avenue Mr.. A.
Moebus, 154th street and Courtlandt
avenue /; MIR. P. F. Vaupel, 154th street
and Courtlandt avenue; Mr.. John Lun-
ny, $50 East 158th street Mr., John Rem
shaw, 1924 125th street, and many Others
! will also reply to letters of inquiry.
We submit that the above astonishing
cure, vouched for as it is by reputable
men, is deserving of thorough and
candid investigation by thinking people.
And we further submit that when drug
glsts turn away customers by classifying
the character of remedy because they
do not happen 10 have it on hand, they
do great wrong. If this afflicted man
had not disregarded the druggists ad-
vice and sent elsewhere for the remedy
he would without doubt have been in his
grave.
Other letters of a similar character
from prominent individuals, which
stamp Kaskine as remedy of undoubt-
ed merit, will be sent on application.
Price, $l.00. or bottles, $500 Sold by
Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt OF
price.
The Kaskine Company, "a Warren ST.,
New York.